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bend

27 Kiribati words

• kabaoa
  • Sabatier to bend, to inflect.
• benono
  • Sabatier to bend, to give way.
• kaeinakoa
  • Bingham to bend to the ground, to put in a horizontal position.
  • Sabatier to bend over till in horizontal position.
• kaeia
  • Bingham vt ei to bend, to cause to lean, to cause to sway.
  • Sabatier to make slope. kaeieia: to make bend from side to side, to sway.
• oma
  • Bingham bend as a stick when one sits on it, or as a plank when one walks on it while it is supported at each end.
  • Sabatier ka-oma, ka-omaoma, kakaomaoma: to make become flexible, supple, pliable, to inflect, to bend.
• ei
  • Bingham bend over as a tree.
• kamoua
  • Sabatier to make bend, to droop.
• maenen
  • Bingham bending back and forth.
• omaoma
  • Bingham easily bending, not stiff.
• maoto
  • Sabatier te kamaoto: a bend... curve.
• kamaena
  • Bingham to bend into shape as a canoe plank.
• oto
  • Sabatier to break, to shatter, to smash, to bend.
• kateibabai
  • Sabatier to bend forward with hands on the ground.
• bubua
  • Sabatier the joint or bend in middle of arm and leg.
• kabatikua
  • Bingham to bow, to bend, to incline as the head or body.
• menga
  • Sabatier to bend under the weight, to toil, to slave away.
• beuangingi
  • Sabatier to stoop or bend until quite small, to shrivel up.
• kamaoto
  • Sabatier a pleat, a bend, a curve, angle of current, land, net.
• baoua
  • Sabatier kabaoua: to bend in two, to bend, to twist, to distort.
• bao
  • Sabatier kabaoa, kabaobaoa, kakiribabaoa: (sup.) to bend, to inflect, to twist.
• kaeieia
  • Bingham to bend back and forth as a young tree, to cause to sway back and forth.
• rabi
  • Sabatier forming curve, bend, coil, arch, falling in waves, undulating, concave, etc.
• ekira
  • Sabatier to bend a dry or crisp thing, to roll up pandanus leaves, to weave the edge of a mat.
• batiku
  • Sabatier batikutiku. to go along bent down, to bend down, to reduce height, to stoop, to bow down.
• bobaraki
  • Sabatier to stoop, to bow, to bend the head, to lower the body, to be prostrate, to lie face downwards.
• eba
  • Sabatier ka-eb'a, kaeb'a nako: to curve, to bend slightly, to make a nice curve on a kabane line or a kite.
• maoriori
  • Sabatier mamaoriori, nimaoriori: bending in every direction, disarticulated, soft, nerveless (as sick, tired, old person).